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animators

noun

plural of animator

as in drivers

someone or something that gives life or vigor to

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Recent Examples of animators Professional producers, directors, writers and animators will be on hand to help mentor students in their preferred track. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 Not all users need as much graphics muscle as processing speed, but plenty of editors, animators, engineers, and other workers will lean on a strong GPU. — Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 19 Sep. 2026 Pre-Production DAVE GREEN (director) 2021 was largely dedicated to doing a Pixar-style story reel of the whole movie with a crew of animators from around the world. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026 Later that year, Disney would create Pluto the Dog, though there remains widespread debate as to whether Walt Disney and his animators named him after the planet. — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026 Motivating a new generation of animators and storytellers also fuels Buermann. — Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 All three animators who spoke to USA TODAY asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from others in the music industry and harassment online. — Krystie Lee Yandoli, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026 The visual effects artists and animators then got to work creating digital Martians that would have the handmade, idiosyncratic style Burton originally intended to achieve with stop-motion. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026 Studios are firing skilled animators, then rehiring them to fix what the models get wrong. — Sadev Parikh, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2026

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Noun

As usual at the Bahrain GP, the top three drivers will celebrate on the podium with bottles of fragrant, non-alcoholic rosewater, not Champagne.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
Either way, the credit helped juice interest in EVs, and overcome some of the reservations drivers have about them.

— Willa Rubin, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of drivers

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The Fed has long blamed a range of factors for the cost overruns, including a spike in inflation, unexpected expenses such as asbestos remediation, and additional demands from review agencies.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
The other, Patrick McHenry, was in Congress for 20 years and helped craft export controls on surveillance technologies that could benefit China’s military or intelligence agencies.

— Patrick McHenry, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of agencies

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No charges have been filed against the co-executors, Epstein's longtime lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn.

— Dan Mangan,Jim Forkin, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
While executors have time to complete estate administration, 10 years stretches beyond reasonable expectations.

— Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of executors

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By balancing the speed of physical random number generators with the clarity of their signals, the new device principle, in theory, can achieve processing speed yielding high bit-rate with signal clarity and stochasticity.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
The development will also include a new, private and Evergy-owned substation to serve the site along with 41 diesel generators in case of power failure.

— Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of generators

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And among recent film offerings are movie shot locally as the Garden State enjoys a Hollywood production boom underpinned by film tax credits and other state incentives and local hires.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
The Port Authority of Kansas City approved incentives for the development earlier this year.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of incentives

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Record cell performance Subsequent tests carried out by the researchers showed a significant performance difference between the catalysts.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Drbul also noted that product innovation represents one of the most important catalysts for share price recovery.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of catalysts

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Western footwear inspirations, for example, are all the rage right now, manifesting in everything from calf hair finishes to the revival of cowboy boots.

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Later that evening, the same stage will host one of Abyss’s musical inspirations, Chad Gray, lead vocalist of Mudvayne.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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